STAC Summit, Software Updates, & Testimonials

I recently spoke at STAC Summit in London and Rene Peinthor, a LINBIT developer, was also in London for his talk at the CloudStack European User Group. A busy time all around for the team! We recently published ‘Kubernetes High Availability for Stateful Workloads,’ showing how LINSTOR’s HA Controller for Kubernetes can lower the recovery time of […]
PHOENIX MEDIA Switches Out Competitor with LINBIT SDS for Kubernetes

High performance will always be a core value of any of our software. We recently shared some exciting performance results from our collaboration with Ampere, breaking our IOPS record again from 14.9 to 25.5 mio IOPS. On the subject of performance, PHOENIX MEDIA decided to integrate LINBIT SDS in its operations with Rancher, the Kubernetes […]
Persistent Storage Solutions for Kubernetes Using LINBIT’s Software: HCI, Disaggregated, & NAS

LINBIT® has been growing its catalog of open source storage and high-availability (HA) clustering software for many years with various drivers, plugins, and platforms all with DRBD® at their core. I often refer to DRBD as a “Swiss army knife of replication” because DRBD doesn’t care what application is writing to it or what those writes look […]
Speed of Light Media Replaces Ceph with DRBD for Its Cloud Needs

Speed of Light Media has been ecstatic with their decision to replace CEPH in favor of DRBD®. According to Robert Isaacs, the tech-savvy founder and CEO of Speed of Light Media, the decision to make the switch was prompted by careful evaluation and that LINBIT®’s solution comprises clear building blocks, with a clean separation of […]
Monitoring Clusters Using Prometheus & DRBD Reactor

UPDATE 5/15/2023: While the ha_cluster_exporter project is still active and well, LINBIT® now has their own software, DRBD® Reactor, for exporting Prometheus metrics specific to DRBD. This blog post will highlight LINBIT software with native Prometheus instrumentation, as well as pointing you in the right direction for integrating them into your Prometheus monitoring strategy. Prometheus […]
Getting Started in Kubernetes for Persistent High-Availability Storage with LINBIT SDS

LINBIT® SDS is the product name for LINBIT’s LINSTOR® and DRBD® software, and the plugins, drivers, and utilities that work with them. Together, these combine to make a software-defined storage (SDS) solution that you can use on its own or else integrate it with other platforms and environments. One popular LINBIT SDS integration is with […]